3DView CDPP release notes
2026/03/16: V2.24
- Improvement of 3DView web-services performance
- New pages with available missions and models
- Automatic update of JPL small-body database
2025/12/09: V2.23
- Yet more SMILE/SXI features
- Web-services improvements
- New coordinate systems for Saturn
- CST fixes
2025/06/30: V2.22
- RESTful services added
- Some SMILE/SXI data visualization fixes
2025/03/07: V2.21
- new kernels: EMM mission, Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids
- support to SMILE/SXI data visualization
- umbra/penumbra computation functionality
2024/10/21: V2.20
- Improved troubleshooting and ways of feedback
- Support for Mac version 14.1
- Connexion to APIS fixed
- Magnetic coordinate update in the Conjunction Search Tool
- IHM updates (memory usage, abort process, ...)
2024/06/18: V2.19
- EscaPADE orbits
- Improvement of the spacecraft size management
- Fixes on crossing detections
- Updates and fixes in the Conjunction Search Tool
2023/10/16: V2.18
- Parker field lines to all spacecraft
- REST web service access to CDAWeb
- Option : scene without spacecraft attitude
- Improvement of footprints display in 2D/3D
- Model support for SMILE SXI (in collab. with LATMOS)
2023/07/05: V2.17
2023/04/26: V2.16
- Jupiter magnetic field model JRM33
- Improvement of Lagrange points display
- Dynamic boundary crossings
- JUICE and PSP kernels management
- Improvement of Earth's terminator display
2023/01/25: V2.15
- Access to ESA/Cluster Science Archive with TAP
- HelioSwarm 9-spacecraft trajectories (with initial launch in 2026)
2022/11/18: V2.14 (the V2.13 was not officialy released)
- PFSS field lines tracing from the Connect Tool
- New in-situ data tree for AMDA
- SMILE, New Horizons and Mariner 10 missions added
- Bug fix on the shear maps at the Earth's magnetopause
- Improvement of footprint track rendering
- Improvement of Field of View management
- Update of the list of SuperDARN radars
- Several bug fixes on the CST and the general interface
- Table of available footprints (see link below)
2022/01/18: V2.12
- New spacecraft: AMPTE UKS, PIONEER
- Iso-surfaces for 3D simulations
- Interpolation of simulations on boundary surfaces
- Management of simulations: labels, inputs
- AACGM-v2 coordinates
- Tutorial for the Conjunction Search Tool (CST)
- Several bug fixes on the CST and the general interface
2021/06/16: V2.11
- Magnetic connectivity maps from http://connect-tool.irap.omp.eu
- Alfvén wings model at Ganymede from Kaweeyanun et al., 2020
- Column density computed from instrument FOV and simulations (new LATMOS WS)
- IMF vector (from OMNI) visible in the 3D scene
- MSE and MSEQ reference frames
- Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya spacecraft
- Fixes for Linux support
2021/01/16: V2.10
- Io torus density from Mai et al., 1995
- EGM simulations from LATMOS at Mercury
- Column density at MPO from EGM simulations
- Management of time dependent simulations
2020/11/03: V2.9
- Connect-tool maps
- Attitude and instruments kernels for MMO/MPO
For TEMPETE (ANR project):
- Mercury magnetic field model from Anderson et al., 2011
- Spherical EGM simulations from LATMOS
- Access to LATMOS getShellCut service
2020/06/24: V2.8
- Improved information on SPICE kernels
- Improved "Small bodies" interface
- Multi parameters display in 2D plot
- Download data from 2D plot
- Mars crustal magnetic field model from Langlais et al., 2019
2020/02/24: V2.7
- New 3D models for some Auréol-3, MAVEN, Herschel, Mars-Odyssey
- Some minor improvments and bug fixes
2019/09/12: V2.6
- Jovian magnetic field JRM09 from JUNO's observations
- Magnetopause shear angle and reconnection locations (Cooling and Trattner models)
- Shock normals and theta_Bn (dynamic computation from Solar Wind conditions)
- FOV improvments
- Solar wind flux tube visualization (Borovsky spaghetti model)
- New Heliospheric spacecrafts attitude and 3D models
- Bepi-Colombo cruise trajectory and MMO/MPO orbiting phases
- Arcad 3 orbit
- Improvements on the Conjuction Search Tool interface
2018/12/19: V2.5
- Gruesbeck Boundary model for Mars
- Roche potential and Lagrange points
- Upload science data from URL
- FOV improvments
- New way to manage distances and angles display
- New Heliospheric spacecrafts attitude and 3D models
- Proba2 and Cruise of Bepicolombo added
- Several bug fixings: preference menu, model presentation...
2018/11/08: V2.4
- Boundary model for 67P at perihelion (Simon Wedlund et al., 2017)
- Upload of 3D simulation with spherical grid (ascii only)
- Upload of 3D data (independent of time, for statistics illustration)
- Customization of S/C trajectories (colour, length, ...)
- Event lists of boundary crossings
- New AMDA web-services
- Compatibility with Java 9 & 10
- 2D figures and plots: improved legend setting and high-res figures
- Several bug fixings: preference menu, model presentation...
- Several bugs and improvement in the Conjunction Search Tool
2018/05/31: V2.3
- Models can be applied to all bodies in the scene (not just the central one)
- Models are automatically transformed to the scene frame
- In-situ/model dynamic pressures are uploaded from AMDA for boundary models
- Time shift has been improved (interface, rounding issue for large shift)
- Help on how to upload user data has been improved
- Distances in movies are implemented
- Several bug fixings: CDF reader, SAMP connector, ...
- Meta-kernels for several ESA missions
- New module for conjunctions search (CST)
2017/11/14: V2
- New module for conjunctions search (CST)
- Conjunctions search between at most 3 spacecraft missions and/or ground-based stations
- Conjunctions search in geographic or geomagnetic coordinate system
- Conjunctions search over several years
- Ground-based scientific stations and associated field-of-views added
- Ground-based data from ISR added
2016/10/24: V1.11
- Parker spiral: footprints of magnetic field lines on the Sun surface
- histogram for physical quantities accumulated along several S/C trajectories
- New coordinate systems: RTN, RTP
- New orbit data: Pioneer 10 & 11, PVO, Phobos, ExoMars/TGO
- Footprints: definition of the footprint altitude
- Addition of the ESA / Cluster Science Archive as a new data provider in Remote Data
- Visualisation of CME fronts modeled as fixed point structures (use of the HELCATS catalogue)
- Independent time interval and time step for individual S/C different from the main scene
- Plotting scalar quantities along trajectories in 4 possible orientations
- Europlanet/VESPA: discover planetology data with the EPN-TAP protocol
2016/02/18: V1.10
- Addition of Carrington maps (see availability)
- Upload of science data in ASCII and VOTable
- Moons (Ganymede, Io, Titan, Moon, etc.) can be chosen as Central Bodies in the Management Scene window
- New coordinate systems: TIIS, System 3, TEIS, MIIS, ENIS, DIIS, RHIS
- New orbit data for XMM, Planck, Herschel, Gaia
- 2D projections: polar view (north/south) and Mercator map
- Addition of IMPEx compliant data providers
- Possibility to generate orbits from TLE (two line elements)
- Boundary crossings (for magnetopause and bow shock models) are marked as coloured spheres
- Europlanet/VESPA: Spice kernels and instrument FOV
2015/12/04: V1.9
- Enhancements for the Parker spiral display
- The spiral for solar latitude zero is now in the ecliptic plane
- Extension of the 2D model to 3D
- "Dynamic" capability for several heliospheric S/C (use of the measured solar wind velocity)
- Plot the spiral passing by a spacecraft, a planet or a point located in the heliosphere
- Upload of field lines data (ASCII file)
- Access to Sebastien Hess' magnetic field model for Jupiter via a LESIA web service
- Export of trajectory and velocity of S/C and planets in ASCII and VOTable
- Upload of a longitude/latitude map from a URL
- Addition of spatial graduations (ticks) on the 3D axis
- Data analysis: by default data are requested at their original sampling. This may be increased to limit the volume of data to be transferred.
Statistical analysis on sliding window (min, max, mean, stdev, skewness, ...) enabled.
- Plot a quantity measured by a S/C along its magnetic footprint
- Access to AMDA private (derived) parameters